John Jonas Outsourced Himself 10 Years Ago

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• Wife was put on bed rest with their third pregnancy

• He was running an affiliate business and needed to streamline his work

• He turned over 100% of his work to two of his staff in The Philippines, who had already been with him for 18 months

• They were already somewhat trained, and he spent a little time with them

• He worked about an hour a week for the next three weeks

• He found he replaced himself…it wasn’t 100% as good as he would’ve done it, but they were talented, and he had to set them free and get out of his own way

• The things John hated doing were getting done

• John tried hiring Indians, and that didn’t work out

• John hired four local people, and they stole his ideas

• He hired contractors on ODesk /UpWork to do 50 articles, but then he had to check the articles to see if they were plagiarized and then share them everywhere

• Got a tip to an agency in The Philippines and hired his first two staff

  • He prefers this to having an agency with a pool of workers that get assigned jobs

• He golfed for two months after the baby was born, and he realized he needed to work, so he wanted to see how he could improve his business model

• He guided the process and had them execute

• Jing helped him create training videos and screen-sharing tutorials

• To this day, he’ll use tools like Jing and SnagIt 30 times per day to share ideas

• Now he doesn’t touch anything: programming, content, Facebook Ads, Google Ads

• But sometimes 

• John hated Facebook (6 years ago), but one of his people encouraged him to get on there and execute her plan to leverage Facebook, and it has worked well

• They get a lot of workers from India that try to apply to his Filipino job board, and one of his staff came up with an idea to filter them out

• Whereas we think we can’t trust them, they don’t trust us to not berate and fire them for a simple error

• If you have zero patience, this won’t work for you

• He now has over 300,000 resumes

• His services keep workers from scamming clients

• 100% of his work today—2.5 to 3 hours per day—is centered around giving feedback to his team

• He now has 21 people

• It took a while to transition from using his virtual staff to grow his affiliate business to making them his business

• “I don’t know what works today…because we do everything.”

  • Post in forums

  • Facebook Ads

  • Share on Facebook and Instagram

  • Retargeting

  • He stopped doing email

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